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From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater)
Subject: Re: HP SureStore DAT8 DDS-2 work with FreeBSD ? Please help.
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dpunjabi@nyx.net wrote:
: I am looking to buy an HP Surestore DAT8 DDS-2 DAT tape drive. It is
: supposedly a successor to the HP Surestore 6000 external drives.

Yip.

: I looked at HPs web site which has specs on this drive
: (http://www.hp.com:80/tape/dat8.html), but it does'nt tell
: if this one will work with FreeBSD. I also looked at FreeBSD's
: hardware compatibility page, but it does not have this drive
: listed since it is fairly new.

Can't see any reason why not.
Last time I hacked around the insides of st.c it was very unlikely
it would send anything upsetting to any tape device that'll happily
run in variable mode.

: Anyone have this working with FreeBSD 2.2 ? Also, I am assuming
: that this drive will be able to do backups on a small ethernet
: LAN running freebsd machines.

ISTR I've had it go okay in the lab with a very early version
of firmware.

FWIW, you'd want the dips set to 11011111 on the underside.

As ever, there's only a finite set of things we can support in terms of
hw/sw targets -- the myriad numbers of Unixen out there typically mean
the big commercial bits. Not to say we won't help out people
using Linux/FreeBSD if possible :-), it's just 'officially unsupported'.

cheers,
al
(not speaking for HP..)